Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-03 Thread rockingred
The Python Forum has a good set of selections in their General Forum section: http://python-forum.org/pythonforum/viewtopic.php?f=1t=12st=0sk=tsd=asid=9b04b79b60f9afb56e4237856910d354start=20 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-03 Thread apatheticagnostic
On Mar 2, 6:16 am, David Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-03-02, Jeff Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Python In A Nutshell: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonian2/ Another vote for the Nutshell book, which I find a very useful and practical book. I never found the Dive in book

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-02 Thread David Cook
On 2008-03-02, Jeff Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Python In A Nutshell: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonian2/ Another vote for the Nutshell book, which I find a very useful and practical book. I never found the Dive in book useful. Dave Cook --

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-02 Thread Tommy Nordgren
On 2 mar 2008, at 01.56, Ira Solomon wrote: I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). I'm interested in learning Python and have downloaded a slew of

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-02 Thread Ken Dere
Ira Solomon wrote: I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). I'm interested in learning Python and have downloaded a slew of books. Too many. I'd like a

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-02 Thread James Matthews
I liked Core Python Programming 2nd edition! On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Ken Dere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ira Solomon wrote: I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a few other odd

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-02 Thread Jeff Schwab
Ira Solomon wrote: I am an experienced programmer (40 years) . . . I'm interested in learning Python js wrote: I wonder why nobody mension Python Cookbook yet . . . and Python Standard Library Because cookbooks are not supposed to be language introductions. They are collections of

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-02 Thread Micah Cowan
Tommy Nordgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2 mar 2008, at 01.56, Ira Solomon wrote: I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). I'm interested in learning

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-02 Thread David Lees
Ira Solomon wrote: I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). I'm interested in learning Python and have downloaded a slew of books. Too many. I'd like a

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-01 Thread Tro
On Saturday 01 March 2008, Ira Solomon wrote: I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). I'm interested in learning Python and have downloaded a slew of

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-01 Thread Ryan M.
On Mar 1, 7:56 pm, Ira Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am an experienced programmer (40 years).  I've done Algol (if you've heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). I'm interested in learning Python and have downloaded a

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-01 Thread Micah Cowan
Ira Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). I'm interested in learning Python and have downloaded a slew of books. Too

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-01 Thread Jeff Schwab
Ira Solomon wrote: I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). I'm interested in learning Python and have downloaded a slew of books. Too many. I'd like a

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-01 Thread subeen
On Mar 2, 6:56 am, Ira Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). I'm interested in learning Python and have downloaded a

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-01 Thread Paddy
On Mar 2, 12:56 am, Ira Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am an experienced programmer (40 years). I've done Algol (if you've heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate). I'm interested in learning Python and have downloaded a

Re: Book Recomendations

2008-03-01 Thread js
I wonder why nobody mension Python Cookbook yet. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythoncook2/ Web version: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/ and Python Standard Library http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonsl/ http://effbot.org/zone/librarybook-index.htm On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at